Dec 02
JupetongEducation, School
HTG, Inc., provider of the quantitative Nuclease Protection Assay (qNPA™) system and service partner for the life sciences industry, announced a collaboration agreement with researchers at Harvard Catalyst Laboratory for Innovative Translational Technologies (HC-LITT) at Harvard Medical School. Under the terms of the agreement, HTG and HC-LITT will collaborate to generate a novel microRNA [...]
Oct 28
JupetongCollege, Education, Finance Education, Financial Aid, Online Education
Foundry Networks(r), Inc. , a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, announced Baylor College of Medicine selected Foundry(r) for an edge-to-core high-performance computing (HPC) solution to power its Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC). Baylor selected Foundry’s NetIron(r) MLX Series 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) routers, FastIron(r) Edge X Series and FastIron [...]
Oct 18
JupetongTraining Programs, University
When Erica Childs was an undergraduate math major at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, she wasn’t sure she wanted to go into research. But mentors at the university’s Meyerhoff Scholarship Program, as well as an internship at the National Institutes of Health, helped Childs, who is African-American, picture herself in science. Now she’s a [...]
Sep 15
JupetongEducation, University
Scientists at deCODE genetics and colleagues at Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands today report the discovery of two common single-letter variants in the human genome (SNPs) that confer increased risk of urinary bladder cancer. Approximately 20% of people of European descent carry two copies of the first variant, a version of a SNP [...]
Sep 06
JupetongEducation, Finance Education
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., a physician-geneticist and leader of the Human Genome Project, has been awarded with the new Inamori Ethics Prize from the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University.
Modeled after the Nobel and Kyoto Prizes for science, technology, philosophy and the arts, the Inamori Ethics Prize instead [...]
Sep 04
JupetongCollege, Training Programs, University
Declaring the success of an unprecedented experiment in science and philanthropy, Los Angeles-based philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad announced today that they have increased their total gift to the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT to $600 million. Adding to their previous gifts totaling $200 million, the Broads today gave an endowment of $400 million [...]
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